Deborah Reed-Danahay
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Professor Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1986 Office: MFAC, Room 377 Phone: (716) 645-0406 Email: der5@buffalo.edu |
Research Interests
Prof. Reed-Danahay is a socio-cultural anthropologist with a primary specialization in France -- including studies of rural France and, more recently, of the Vietnamese diaspora. She has also studied educational projects sponsored by the European Union. In addition, she has conducted fieldwork in the United States on participatory citizenship and civic engagement among Vietnamese immigrants in Texas, the subject of a new book. Her teaching and research interests include social theory, migration and diaspora, anthropology and education, youth, ethnography and personal narrative (including autoethnography), political anthropology, and issues regarding citizenship and national and supranational identities. She has published several articles and a book on the work of Pierre Bourdieu.
She is Director of the Center for European Studies (CEUS) at UB and currently serving as President of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.
You can find a recent profile of Dr. Reed-Danahay in the UB Reporter here.
Selected Publications
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Brettell, Caroline B. and Deborah Reed-Danahay. 2012. Civic Engagements: The Citizenship Practices of Indian and Vietnamese Immigrants. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Reed-Danahay, Deborah. 2010. “Citizenship, Immigration, and Embodiment: Vietnamese Americans in North-Central Texas.” In Meenakshi Thapan, ed. Contested Spaces: Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary Times. Pp. 101-119. Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (India): Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.
Reed-Danahay, Deborah and Caroline B. Brettell, eds. 2008. Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States. Rutgers University Press. Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009
Reed-Danahay, Deborah. 2005. Locating Bourdieu. Indiana University Press.
Reed-Danahay, Deborah, ed. 1997. Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social. Berg Publishers.
Reed-Danahay, Deborah. 1996. Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling. Cambridge University Press.
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Undergraduate Courses Offered
323 - Anthropology and Education
402 - Contemporary Europe
Graduate Courses Offered
536 - Advanced Ethnology of Europe
575 - Cultural Anthro. Topics: Migration and Diaspora
575 - Cultural Anthro. Topics: Ethnography & Personal Narrative
575 - Cultural Anthro. Topics: Bourdieu, Anthropology, and Law
654 - Graduate Survey of Social Anthropology